PAGE TEN. " That's Mighty Good Ale " wor words to that effect, is the way you will express your feelings when you taste WHIT LABEL ALE Everyone says the same Costs no more' than ordinary ale, bug its rich, prime flavor puts it in a class by itself. Try it. ; Remember, you want | White Tabel Ale when you' order , 8 Y £ J Sold locally by( RIGNEY & HICKE 136-138. Princess Street, - Kingston. Brewed and bottled by DOMINION BREWERY COMP ANY LIMITED TORONTO THAT TOBACCO With the "Neoster" om It is _erowing louder as ne goes along * Only 45c per pound. For chewing und smoking. AT A. MACLEAN'S, Ontario Street. Cook's Cc tion Root Compound. The great Uterl fo, and y safe effectual _ thly lator hic! oti CAD gozed on Caex Memon © Toronto, THE KINGSTON ICE COMPANY LIMITED 1912 RATES: Book of 30 tickets, 20 to 25 Ibs. each Book of 30 tickets, 45 to 50 Ibs. each Addon . Gormerly W' Ticket books must be purchased at the office before ice delivery com- mences.' Office: 14 MARKET STREET" 'Telephone 68. A BARGAIN FOR TENDAYS ee TR ¢ WITH THE BOY SEOUTS § : f Special Brigade Parade. On Thursday, May. 390, both | troops Of Kingsten BCOULS paraded | at 7 p.m. at the armolies to prepare {for June 3rd. 'About fifty-five wine | in aendance and a very useful | Moyr® was spent in drill and march- 5 M. Hird was in. command | and 3, M. Pensé took the salut: a: the march past. © ~~ All Bouts will regret to hear that S$. M. Hird will not be here on June { 3rd, as he is leaving shortly for i Petawawa, fe Notice, On June 8rd all Scouts will be In parade uniform, with Dilue shorts and staves. No haversacks or coats are to be worn. As there is an in- ter-troop competition on all Scouts will please attend." Smartness is especially desired for this occasion. BY ORDER. Notes From the Third Troop. Owing to the uncertainty of wea- ther the camp was postponed last Friday, and in the afternoon paraded at the armories for drill Much practice Ior June $rd was gone through and we expect to make a creditable showing. Tues- day evening, instead of our regular meeting, the scouts marched to the fields by the athletic grounds and again practised drill, etc. Thursday 'evening in the armories we had a rehearsal of the march past, .etc., with the 8. George's troop, and now: feel quite in trim This week a humber of our scouts have, by way of a good turn, been busy show- ing 'delegates at the conference to their billets. Troop Leader Chown passed for engimeer's badge, patrol | leader Keill for the cook's, patrol leader Stewart' for the poultry famer's. I'nis brings three more all round cords to our troop. Scouts of the 3rd woop will par- ade next Monday at 10 am. at Sydevham street church. A Camping Trip. On Victoria Day, 'two "members of the 2nd Kingston troop set sail about 12.45 for McDowall's camp, Their dinghy contai eu a tout, blin- kets and other supplier; so the two scouts were well pranared. The wind was rather strong and after waiting a while a. Grophy's Point, they took two :iwefs in the sail, and stood over to McDowall's, where they landed abeut six. o'clock. As soon as the boat was unladen and hauled up on the beach, a hasty meal was cooked and eaten. After tuis the supplies were taken up the elif -- no easy task -- and the blankets were arrauged on the ver- andah of one of the summer cot- tages there. By this time it was about eight o'clock and the two went off with a rod te see if the fish were biting, They were not, although the weeds and stumps were. Lights out did not sound, as the boys went to bed by the light of the moon, At 5 a.m, the next morning a new reveille was sounaed, consist- ing of "Get up you lazy lubber or ell, I'll throw a boot at you." Those concerned state it was quite as ef- fectual as thé old one, and in a few seconds the camp was astir. (N. B. why should not the militia de- parmeut be informed of this dis- covery, so that it can be added to the list of military changes?) It was a glorions morning, the sun Just rising, the birds singing, light breezes playing over. the water, and in the marsh the frogs croaking and brown bitterns sounding their '"ker- plunk!"" just like a pile-driver. The dew was sparkling on the grass and one of the most splendid views for miles around was looking at its best. In a few minutes an expedi- tion was formed with a near-by far- mer and some milk as its objective, The farmer, however, was either asleep or had gone to town, so the boys went milkless, The foraging pary next foraged for flowers, and got several kinds, the variows kinds ef tilliums, Indian turnip, erinkleroot, wild lily of the valley and maidenhair fern being the dommonest. The woods were very beautiful, although in places the walking was very bad. | After breakfast w over, the boat was re-lgaded ana by haif past eight the homeward trip began. The wind was Nght, but good time was made til the hardy scouts reached Bropay's Point, where they again landed to gat some flowers. Sever. al places were fairly carpeted with violets, some of which were almost as large as pansies, and in others trilllems and eolumbine were e- makably plentitul. While the scouts were doing their good turn (to a farmer) they heard some amazing tales of a thirty-foot sea serpent seen off Simcoe Island (bathers please take ndtice). After this, as the wind was falling still more, sail was again made, and after quite a time the mainland was reached. Here, while poition were bel swim, and Sang. they | as dined on broiled beef- steak (dome on a split stick) and city about a quarter past three, after the most enjoyable outing Mrs. J. J. B. Flint died ville, on Thursday, aged seventy-two ¥ = ky on Wedntags boat dhe Metou-Nopahs soute, WALT IE THE DA THINGS THEATRICAL. Notes About Plays, and : Playhouses. The belated production .of Franz iLehar's opera, "The Man With Three Wives," is promised for next awtumn. {The American rights are held by. the Shuberts. oo William J. Wilson, who stages most of the musical plays for the Shu berts, will again take charge of. the dancing and musical numbers of the new Hippodrome production. Previous to this Mr. Wilson will be called upen' to stage a Winter Gardey show. The success of Sothern and = Mar w will in all probability result ina next season 1 ! i Players i i ilo {booking arrangement wherehy they will play two weeks in {cities where in the past they have re- | mak but one week. As usual {thr New York engagement will" be 'played at the Manhattan Opera House bélore that theatre changes its policy to the presentation -of spectacles and melodrama which the Shuberts and William A. Brady will bring over from {the Drury Lane, Loudon. | Walker Whiteside will be sponsor for an American tour mext season. of Vraji (the Duse of Japan) and Sojip Kamiyama, from the Imperial Theatre lat Tokyo, supported by an American company and playing in English = a we | repertoire of dramas, by Shakespeare, |; |Sardou and Ibsen. Occasional curtain | rajsers in Fremch will be gtven. The Japanese emperor originally suggest ed the plan, but does not appear as its patron. The tour will cover twen- "ty weeks, beginning in New York a- {bout Now, 15th. lewis Waller, having concluded his engagement for this season, returned to London, May 3Uth. He was accom- panied by the members of his com: pany, who appeared at Daly's with Pin in "Monsieur Beancaire," and "The Explorer." Mr. Waller will re turn to Rew York in August to take personul charge of the organization of the three compmaies which are to present "A Butterfly On the Wheel," on tour: Later he will begin his sed- son 'at Daly's. 'He plans to appear in a number of Shakespearean product: ions, In the repertory will be "Ro- meo 'and - Juliet," with Miss Madge Titheradge, whom Mr. Waller gra- ciously describes as the "finest Juliet on the stage to-day." De Wolf Hopper, who is playing "Bunthorne," in the Shubert's revival of "Patience," declares that the es: gence of the burlesque idea is to be found in his justly celebrated' poem, "Casey At The Bat." "Because it is such a good burlesque," says Mr. Hopper, "it has remained a favorite with the heroic and mighty." I 'have had countless sequels to 'Casey,' sént to me, including one that told how, years afterward, he retrieved his re putation. In this poem he comes on the field tattered and torn. There is nobody to take the turn at the bat. The regulars and substitutes are both out of commission. So they take poor old 'Casey' and he makes the most wonderful hit on record. And then the spectators find out it is Casey, But hat isn't funny at all. Its almost pathetic. Gilbert knew the real secret that 'Casey' illustrates more crudely. Gilbert builds up the pompous just to make it funny when he pulls them down. "There is no humor that appeals to me more than that of Gilbert. "he special reason may be that the subtle satire is not really my own kind . of humor at all. You cannot imagine how hard it was for me to keep my work down, so to speak, and within the bounds of the satire. I never gave so much thought to a part in my never seen 'Patience' so my concep- tion of the role of 'Bunthorne' is my own. Consequently 1 went to work unhampered by conventions and so originated a good deal of business never used before so far as we know." Origin of the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army had its ori- gin the town of Whitby, in the rough coal mining district of where Gen. Booth, at that time Rev. William Booth, was doing humble mission work. England was then Russo-Turkish war. It occured to Booth that he might attract a crowd by issuing a declaration of war him- self, so he prepared one forthwith, sprinkled in plentifully with hal- iujahs and posted 2,000 copies of it about town. The device tickled the British sense of humor, there was a '"redhot, rousing meeting," to quote General Booth, "the penitent fell down in heaps," and the Salva- tion Army sparng into life full grown.--Lock Haven Democrat. Marry After 13 Hoodoos. Baulked in their plans to marr i thirteen different occasions, datin back as far as 1908, Miss Mary w { Conover, of Pleasantville, and Charlie C. Renneison, of Philadelphia, = ate now happily wedded, the knot having been tied at the parsonage of First Methodist Episcopal church, Atlantie 1 City, by Rev. U. G. Hagaman. The first postponement of the wed- on th in the famil tive bridegroom, on. something intervened the wedding until the couple wera nigh. Sesferate, Atlantic City Dispatch, tadelphia Record. How to Live Cheap. Mrs. Charles Smith, president of the Chicago Vegetarian. Society, declares that a family of three may live al most extravagantly on thirty cents a of the pr should be eaten raw and eays that the cook stove is the menace of civiliza- tion. For breakfast sb ms and dates, sliced tomatoes, Rn juice and grapes; for dinner, celery and® lettuce, sun dried olives, apples, whole wheat, crackers of only being eaten at each meal.--St. Louis Democrat. By the Scouth Watchman. We are pleased to hear that par- for the $25 prize. Buck up, scouts! The 3rd of June is almost here. May the best troop win. (Small 2nd troop scout: "That means St. George's.™) too + We hear rumors of some novel life. The strange part of it is 1 had Yorkshire, | in arms, expecting to jump into the ding in 1905 was occasioned throvgh a from that time to put off day. She believes .that everything w and hi A nd Brazil nuts, a couple ie stunts 10 be put on on the great day. TLY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, BIG BOOM IN WHEAT UNTOUCHED POSSIBILITIES IN THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST. Ment ¥ Not Much More Than a Fourth of the Arable Land Now Yielding Soil Right, Weather Propitious, and More Population Coming All the Time--The Day of 500,000, - 000 Bushels in Sight. By E. W. Thomson The connent of America has need of a mew imstitution. Though this is a long felt want, and too likely to remefn $0, it has never been named, described; nor accurately realized. Va- gue aspirations towards it bave heen judicated. by occasional lamentation that a modern Messiah, termed "The | Fool-killer,"" does not arrive. If he did there would be vastly less slaugh. | ter than %s predicted by the demand, and some who urge it might perish, | They have not understood that the people do not lack sense so much aw | accurate information. imparted au- | thoritdtively be commissioners per- factly acquainted with all important business of public interest, and ab solutely free from pecuniary long- sy Messis, Andrew Carnegie, J. J. Hill and John Rockefeller, if they could be ineculated beyond doubt, | with unchanging altruism, and re freshed from the Founfain of Youth | without lessening their knowledge of {bysiness in general, would scem fit fbr places on the board. The duties of that commission should be to 'ob- serve The Situation, declare what ought to be done, tell why, and show 'What cannot but happen if their counsel should be ignored. It is true that editors, professors, politi- cians, clerics, magazine writers and even _newspaper.correspondents, se: duously engage in this grand work. They would be authoritative if they agreed--but do they? From that multitude of counsellors comes too little wisdom to the people. They lack leisure to winnow the wheat from the chaff, the wise and the righteous from the foolish and the greedy. What thoy need is guidance from » numer- ous commission of just men made perfect morally and intellectually. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan are but two, though they often sound like a host, and in some -/ matters of importance {they appear not one. The above specification of what's ' needed comes from the astonishing spectacle of some Massachusetts peo- ple lamenting that the Grand Trunk railroad seeks a Boston terminal, whilé some Canadian maritime folk lament that same thing. The latter allege that they'll Be outraged unless they be allowed to monopolize Grand Trunk traffic, while the former declare that its arrival would be blasting. What both sets seem oblivious to is a truth that J. J. Hill, has frequently stated, vigz., that there will certainly be a general traffic-blockade of the more northerly main railways and ports of the republic and the domip- ion unless a vast sum---he estimated it at 8500,000,000 two years ago--be expended -as soon as possible on new wilways and on improvement of the old. What Mr. Hill does not know about transporiation is not knowl edge. He took into consideration the | rapidity of development on western | lands, and the swiftness with which | present population must double. In efieet, he signified that every existing | railway sysiem will soon be offered more traffic than it can handle; that every northerly port will be crammed beyond its capacity for exports md imports; that St. John and Halifax can have no good reason to fear di- vision of Grand Trunk Pacific freights to Boston and Providence, since there will be more than enough to create glut all round; and that New England ports must need all the railways they can induce to reach them, or else forego sharing in the certainly com- ing big trade for whose accommoda- tion they should be preparing in every possible way. Instead of the ports and the railway companies angrilly ob- structing one another, like so many hogs each eager to.crowd others from the trough, they ought rather to pro- mote one another's extension, lest all alike be afflicted as the three great Canadian railway companies now are, They cannot handle the trafic which is offered. Millions of bushels of snow- covéred grain lie in course of wetting and rotting on the prairies. Canadian | farmers, I as, manufacturers, im- porters, are cursing the companies. { American border-state farmer fear to be neglected and. made almost as bad- ly off as their neighbors if Mr. Hill's roads help to lessen the Canadian fut, it cannot be relieved before vast osses all round shall have occurred. The plain truth is that there are not, in both norths, enough tracks, cars, locomotives, trainmen to serve the business. Production and population have got far ahead of transportation facilities. This situation threatens to be far worse before it can be betiered. hen the betterments become sufficient then Boston, Providence, Salem, Hali- fax, St. John, Montreal, Quebec, will all alike have more than they are now ready for. "Or, il they do not hasten to get ready pari passa with the western and main lines, then the ghit sill' be transferred from west to est. If these circumstances any port which shall refuse opportunity to ob- tain more railway connections will have passed a unique seli-denying ordnance, one refusing immediate com- petition and future trade. To say nothing of the rapidity of agricultural and other development in the northern tiers of American states, let the future traffic of east- west lines be estimated from sta- tistics of Canada's three provinces --Manitoba, Saskatchewan, profitable farming measure 000,000 acres. There are few more then produced ade, and the "rally" | ¢ wilt Areclighting in the competiion JUNE 1, 1912. back westward would infallibly in- duce Jower freight rates in that di- rection, equivalent to knocking off a large percentage of the Canadian Jarl on United States manufactutes to say nothing of cheap rates for westbound traffic between New Englind and the United States west, via Canadian roads. and their American connections. 'Consider the lessons which recent years have to New England and. espefially to Boston concerning the old foolish: ness of ugderrating Canadian trade calling. our west an aretic region, predicting that agriculture and peo- ple will yet be frozen out of it, and resting lazily confident that no good can be permanently gained by striv- ing to get profit thence. In view of that past gnd this present it would seem incredible, if it. were not un- deniable that some New Englanders oppose Grand Trunk service to their ports! These obstructives curiously allege that the G.T.R. is not well managed, or well equipped. ' That tale might have passed twelve years ago. Your - corespondent, who travels considerably in the republic and the dominion can testify that very extensive portions of the Grand Trunk furnish as comfortable and as regular trains, on as good a roadbed, as the best between Bos- ton and New York, or New York and Washington. Mr. Hays, even before he became G.T.R. president," had gone minutely over the whole system and initiated reforms which now are generally completed. As to the severity of west Can- adian. winters being a permanent bar to great prosperity and large population, tne ORinion, which | shared twenty years ago, has not on- ; ly been dissipated but there is large reason to believe the cold winters and cool nights in summer are lke- ly to be reckoned an asset of the re- gion. Why? Because the climate implies health and strength for the) people, vigor, enterprise and the fondness for locality which these blessings create and perpetuate. Ot- tawa and adjacent regions have had for three months the equivalent of a western winter. No thaw since early in November, Clear, strict, steady cold, often far below zero. What effect? There are now 154 trained nurses out of employment in this small city. That has been the case of about as many for six weeks. Never was Ottawa more healthy, and this despite the city water being less pure than of old. Wien thaw comes we shail, per- haps, have as many influenzas as Boston and New York, but the long period of immunity from every kind of sickness must have built up phy- sical powers of resistance and en- durance. Again, all manner of wholesome, jolly winter sports have engaged the young and the middle- aged. Why suppose that people will pot increase, multiply, rejoice for- ever in a country whose fertility be- stows wealth, as its climate health? The most prolific folk of the con- tinent are those of the Canadian west. Statistics prove that beat even French Canadians in breeding. Dr. Magloire, the Sage of Torelore, who was recently in Sas- katchewan and Alberta, declares these provinces constitutes = great sanatorium. He entertains but one fear concerning their future. It is that the old will there give up the immemorial human custom of dy- ing, so that, in the course of a few hundred years, there wont be any room thers %r the young. But the doctor lo)ks ahead for trouble.-- Boston Transcript, Sand Filtration. Toronto World. In a memorandum recently pre- pared by the enginers of the Edin- burgh and District Water Trust (a public body representing the cor- poations of Edinburgh and Leith) an instructive comparison is drawn between the cost of the ordinary sand method of filtering and me- chanical filtering. It is based on the actual working tests at Alnwickhill and Fairmilehead and shows that whi'e mechanical filters are cheap- er to instal in the first instance, they are rather more expensive to work than sand filters on a fairly large scale. It is of local interest that the enginers call attention to the fact that the olu sand filters at Alnwickhill have been working for thirty years and are as good as ev- er. They express their doubt whether the mechanical filters would show the same record. Charges Judge With Spoiling Wives. | "Judge, you are ruining the wives in Milwaukee," said Louis Lusty to Judge Neelen, recently. "They are get. tin' so independent there's mo livin' with 'em, y wife is getting awful smart." $ R "What court. . "Every time 1 drink a little she sells ont, 'I'll get the police and have you pinched, Then me and Neelen will fix you. It's a disgrace." Lusty promised to quit drinking. en- tirely and sentence was # ¥ Milwaukee Dispatch in Boston Post. REAL ESTATE SNAPS BRICK VENEER HOUSE. Montreal Street, 4 bedrooms and all modern improvements easy terms, $1,500.00 FRAME HOUSE, Chatham Sweet, good, large lot, BRICK .VENZER HOUSE. Toronto Street, and two larg» SLT00.90 does she do?" asked the HOUSE TO RENT on Alber Street, ivrnace. electric ligni- ngs and all modern improve- ments, near car Hlne. $17.09 per month. i GOOD DOUBLE HOUSE, frame. 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